2014 Nobel prize
Nobel Laureates in Physiology or Medicine 2014
The Nobel Lectures 7 December
About May-Britt and Edvard Moser
The Discovery of Grid Cells
Brain researchers May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser at NTNU's Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience receive this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine together with John O'Keefe of University College London.
May-Britt and Edvard Moser discovered – in the medial entorhinal cortex, a region of the brain next to hippocampus – grid cells that provide the brain with an internal coordinate system essential for navigation.
–The story of how we discovered the grid cells
The Kavli Institute
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Press Contacts
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Videos
May-Britt and Edvard Moser's discovery of the grid cells that provide the brain with an internal coordinate system essential for navigation.
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NTNU Nobel Laureates
Ivar Giæver, Physics 1973
Lars Onsager, Chemistry 1968
May-Britt Moser, Physiology or Medicine 2014
Edvard Moser, Physiology or Medicine 2014